Goffman: Reality as Self-Fulfilling Expectation and the Theatre of Interiority

Abstract:     
A critical exposition, in Spanish, of Erving Goffman's theories on the semiotic organization of social reality and on the structure of subjectivity and subjective experience (two sides of the same coin) through a detailed analysis of the conclusion to Frame Analysis (1974). Goffman's insights into the interactional nature of subjectivity are related to other theorists' conceptions of the role of reflexivity in perception, consciousness and the structuring of semiotic artifacts (language, narrative, art).

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Keywords: Goffman, Reality, Frames, Expectations, Subject, Subjectivity, Interaction, Communication, Cognition, Reflexivity

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